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Beyond Code: Context, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software

by Jeremy McEntire
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798994968529
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cage & Mirror Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cage & Mirror Publishing
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  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: GBP 13.31
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design

AI didn't change what makes a great engineer. It revealed it.

Code generation is now nearly free. You can produce in minutes what once took days. And yet most teams shipping AI-generated code are moving faster toward the wrong destination. The cost of building dropped to near-zero, but the cost of being wrong didn't.

Beyond Code is for software engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers who refuse to hand their craft to a chatbot and call it progress. Drawing on information theory, cognitive science, and organizational physics, Jeremy McEntire shows why the engineers who thrive in the AI era are the ones who put the science back in computer science: experimentation over dogma, measurement over intuition, honest analysis over framework fanboyism.

You will learn:

  • Context engineering - how to design the information environment that makes AI output actually useful, not just plausible
  • Constraint design - why mechanical verification beats advisory review, and how to build systems that resist Goodhart's Law
  • Multi-pass cognition - the thinking patterns that separate senior engineers from prompt-and-pray developers
  • Organizational navigation - how signal degrades through hierarchy, and what to do about it
  • Coordination at scale - why adding more people makes teams slower, and architectures that actually fix it

Grounded in Crawford-Sobel signaling theory, the Data Processing Inequality, and cognitive load research, Beyond Code doesn't teach you which buttons to press. It teaches you to see the forces that govern every software system - so you can derive the right approach for any tool, any team, any era.

In a world where you can test three architectures in the time it used to take to argue about one, there is no excuse for not measuring.

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